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VANQUISH

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Example:

Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game

Synonyms:

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "vanquish" is one way to...):

defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)

"Vanquish" entails doing...:

win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)

Verb group:

beat; circumvent; outfox; outsmart; outwit; overreach (beat through cleverness and wit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vanquish"):

bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)

outplay (excel or defeat in a game)

immobilise; immobilize (make defenseless)

checkmate; mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game)

overmaster; overpower; overwhelm (overcome by superior force)

outfight (to fight better than; get the better of)

best; outdo; outflank; scoop; trump (get the better of)

get over; master; overcome; subdue; surmount (get on top of; deal with successfully)

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)

cheat; chicane; chouse; jockey; screw; shaft (defeat someone through trickery or deceit)

get the jump (be there first)

rout; spread-eagle; spreadeagle (defeat disastrously)

get the best; have the best; overcome (overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome)

whomp (beat overwhelmingly)

mop up; pip; rack up; whip; worst (defeat thoroughly)

eliminate (remove from a contest or race)

walk over (beat easily)

outpoint; outscore (score more points than one's opponents)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to vanquish his opponent

Derivation:

vanquishable (susceptible to being defeated)

vanquisher (someone who is victorious by force of arms)

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